Well, following on from the timber framing, we’ve now managed to get the OSB chipboard cladding on the outside of the solar shed. In the picture below, you can see the dwangs in the roof that will accept the screws… Read More »Solar Shed Chipboard Cladding
Following on from the wood chipper assembly post, we’ve now been able to give our new Forrest Master wood chipper and mulcher a test run. I have since posted a full review article of this, on this review page if… Read More »Testing the Forrest Master Wood Chipper
We have just bought our new wood chipper. It’s a 14 hp Forrest Master wood chipper. The model is the FM14DD, which is a professional model chipper, and can take branch sizes up to about 100mm. This purchase has been… Read More »Our New Wood Chipper
The concrete floor is hardened enough to work on. Time to start building the solar shed timber framing. The angles and lengths are largely pre-determined by the solar panel lengths and the way we have set out the concrete blocks,… Read More »Solar Shed Timber Framing
The block work walls are finished on the solar shed, so now it’s time to start pouring the concrete floor. There are three options here: Option 1. We pour the concrete directly onto the ground surface. This is very strong,… Read More »Building the Solar Shed – Pouring The Concrete Floor
It’s time to start building the solar shed. This seems a little ridiculous, I will admit. We have almost 60 metres of barn roof, plus the house roof on which we could mount solar panels. And yet, we are going… Read More »Building the Solar Shed
Four years ago, we dug most of the drainage to the house. A part of that didn’t get finished. At the time, we were still slating the roof, and we had some scaffolding erected in front of the kitchen window.… Read More »Digging Drainage